I seem to have misplaced my copy of Blue Highways because of the move. I spent like 30 minutes searching for it just now. (I found a bunch of other interesting stuff though.) I think about that book a lot and I’ve decided to honor it with the introductory quote to No Shortage Vol. 3.

“On the old highway maps of America, the main routes were red and the back roads blue. Now even the colors are changing. But in those brevities just before dawn and a little after dusk — times neither day nor night— the old roads return to the sky some of its color. Then, in truth, they carry a mysterious cast of blue, and it’s that time when the pull of the blue highway is strongest, when the open road is a beckoning, a strangeness, a place where a man can lose himself.”

— William Least Heat Moon Blue Highways